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    Help! Brand New Chicks in a Nest With Mites

    I'm thinking it might be best to take each new chick out as they hatch and put it in the incubator or a brooder. This way I can leave the nest alone until all the chicks hatch and then sanitize the whole coop before I put the babies back in. Has anyone tried toxin free treatments for mite...
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    Help! Brand New Chicks in a Nest With Mites

    Disaster! I went out to check on my brooding hen this afternoon and noticed she has hatched one in her clutch. I put up some new mesh next to her so that the other hens wouldn't peck through the wire at her (she's right next to the wire) and pulled my hand out of the bedding to find 15 or so...
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    Toys for Chicks

    My local feed stores only carry chicks through spring. I live in Northern Nevada. Can anyone recommend a farm that ships live chicks? I could drive to Sacramento.
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    Toys for Chicks

    Countrycake lady- I am looking for a friend, but haven't found one yet. Any ideas for finding one about the same age?
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    Toys for Chicks

    We have one little chick that is so lonely. The rest of the hatch didn't make it, and she's all alone. We put some rubber ducks in the brooder and a piece of wood to climb on, but I think I'll try the stuffed animal too. She is attached to all the humans around her because she doesn't have any...
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    Hatching Chicks... Need Help Please!

    Thanks for the great info! I'm on day 21 and listening to the sweet peeps. I'm hoping I won't have to assist, but will definitely use this advice. Thanks!
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    Our hatch update on 2 dozen shipped eggs :)

    Fantastic! I really thought about using one of my broody hens, but the eggs were so expensive I didn't want to risk her because she's never hatched before. Thank you for sharing more info. When you zipped your little egg that had pipped and shrink wrapped, how did you do this? It sounds like...
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    Our hatch update on 2 dozen shipped eggs :)

    Great job on your hatch! My first set of shipped eggs are due to day- I'm very nervous as I did set a batch previous (6 weeks ago) and not even one hatched (only three were even developed and the power went out). I worked much harder this time at keeping temp and humidity right. Did you lay...
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    First Mail Order Hatch

    I set my first shipped eggs three weeks ago. They are due today (so nervous). I've heard some pipping but no peeps just yet. I used a Little Giant bator and had them in an auto turner, but when I stopped turning I put them in a carton because some of the air cells were detached I wanted to make...
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    Day 22 and No Pipping :(

    I heard some cheeping last night and still some wiggling today, but still no babies. So sad... What's the longest anyone has had for a hatch on chicken eggs?
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    What a good momma hen!
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    Oops- day 20 and just now took the eggs out of the turner

    Thanks so much for your encouragement. I feel so bad- the eggs are my son's hatch this time and I just forgot. We've got one wiggling tonight. The last time we hatched I left the first ones in while they dried, and lost the rest of the hatch. I cracked a few just to see if they had grown, and...
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    Oops- day 20 and just now took the eggs out of the turner

    I have some beautiful eggs from a breeder in Tennessee, 99.5, Little Giant incu,, and a really cool turner. But then I forgot to take them out of the turner until today. ugh! so mad at myself. (finals week had me distracted) What happens to the little darlings when they get turned so close to...
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